Edward has a piece of fabric that is 5 feet long. the fabric needs to be cut into 3 equal length pieces. how many feet long should each pieces of the board be

You would divide 5 by 3 (5/3) and you would get 1.667 (1.6 repeating) or 1 2/3.

First step is to get rid of the square root. remember that a square root is the same as raising to the (1/2) power. see below: multiply exponents per exponent rules to get: remember you subtract exponents from the denominator and add exponents in the numerator so: simplify further: so a is the correct choice. if you don't understand this google exponent rules and it will you understand. look at the image results.